[LRUG] Netbooks and Rails development

[Matthew Rudy Jacobs]

I had the original EeePc 701 when I went travelling last year.

It was good enough for vim,
but clearly couldnt deal with any real amount of data in the database.

I also set up truecrypt partitions to store sensitive data on.

I kind of expected to get robbed at some point
(probably in Cambodia)
but it never happened.

Overall it was a good experience.
When I go travelling in April I'll probably upgrade to the 10" Samsung,
or maybe the 10" Acer.

But 10" feels like the way forward.

Will have to see.

I also need to decide whether to carry my proper camera,
downgrade to my reserve camera
or buy a new digital compact

And I can't quite decide
:S

2009/2/16 Tim Cowlishaw <tim at timcowlishaw.co.uk>:
> Hey Anthony,
>
> I haven't used it for any major development work, but I've got Ubuntu
> Intrepid running on an eeepc (I tried the eee-specific versions, but found
> that vanilla ubuntu worked just as well if not better) and have used it for
> a bit of hacking (mostly working through tutorials and following-along with
> the speaker at confereces) with no problem! No experience with fedora to
> compare to, I'm afriad, but i've found ubuntu to be a pretty good
> environment for ruby development.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim
>
> On 16 Feb 2009, at 11:05, Anthony Green wrote:
>
>>
>> I bought an Acer Aspire One for travelling which I'm currently running
>> Fedora 10 on. The Kuki project (Ubuntu for Acer) have just announced their
>> 3.0 RC1
>>
>> I wonder if its worth switching.
>> Anyone doing Ruby development on a Netbook willing to share their
>> experiences ?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Anthony Green
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